Milk-can.



UNTTen STATES EDIVARD M. PEACOCK, OF NEN YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO THE IRON CLAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF SAME PLACE.

MILK-CAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 665,837, dated January 8, 1901. Application filed February 1'7, 1900. Serial No. 5,590. (No model.)

T all whom, It may concern: by the breast-neck, another of which has been Be it known that I, EDWARD M. PEACOCK, to provide the bowl with a neck and the a citizen of the United States, residingin New breast with a neck, said bowl-neck having a York, (Dunton, Long Island,) in the county reinforced breast portion, thereby forming a 5 of Queens and State of New York, have indouble breast. Another has been to form the vented certain new and useful Improvements bowl and the breast separate from each other, in Milk-Cans, of which the followingisaspeciwith the inner and outer neck portions also cation. separate from each other and each provided This invention relates to milk-cans, and with a flange or bent edge overlapping the 6o Io more particularly to the construction of the bowl and the breast, and still another has neck of the bowl and breast thereof; and it has been to form a double neck, one part of such for one object the provision of an improved neck being integral with the breast and the neck in which the bowl and breast, formed other with the bowl. In allof theseconstrucof separate members, maybe unitedin an imtions except the first it will be seen that a I5 prov ed manner. complete double neck is necessarily provid ed,

A further object of the invention is to prowhile in the first the bowl, breast, and a porvide a bowl and a breast, one of which parts tion of the body are made of one member and may be formed with a neck having a flange not of separate members, which latter conadapted to overlap the other of said parts, struction has many material advantages, in- 7o zo and to which neck the other of said parts is cludingincreased facility in consti-notion and secured in animproved manner. decreased expense in manufacture. In yet A further object of the invention is to proanother way the breast is provided with a vide a bowl member and a breast member, neck and the bowl is provided with a neck, one of which members has a neck rigid thereone neck connected with the other neck by an 25 with and provided with a recess preferably ordinary slip-joint; but since milk-cans are having a pair of end walls for the reception frequently lifted by the bowl there is nothing of a part of the other member. other than the solder or tin used to coat the In the drawings accompanying and forming metal to maintain the parts together. There part of this specification, Figure l is a View, is no interlocking of one part with the other, 8o

3o partly in section, of a breast, bowl, and neck whereby independently of such solder or tinconstructed in accordance with the present ning material the parts would still be secured improvements. Fig. 2 is a sectional view, on together, as in the present case. an enlarged scale, showing the bowl and In a general way the present improvement breast connected together, the bowl having its comprises a bowl member having a neck por- 35 neck portion recessed. Fig. 3 is an enlarged tion and a breast member having a neck porsectional View of a portion of the breast and tion, one of said neck portions interlocking a reinforcing hoop or band; and Fig. 4 is a with the other neck portion intermediate the view showing a reversal of the construction bowl and the breast and one of said neck por-- presented in Fig. 2, the recessed neck being tions preferably overlapping one of said mem- 9o 4o shown in this instance rigid with the breast. bers.

Similar characters of reference designate In the form thereof herein shown anddelike parts in all the figures of the drawings. scribed, and which may be its preferred form,

Heretofore milk-cans have been constructif desired, the bowl or bowl member 2, of any ed in various ways, one of which has been to suitable construction and usually having a 45 make the bowl, neck, and breast, together reinforced edge 3, is provided with a dependwith a portion of the body, ofthe can all of ing neck 4, provided adjacent to its lower one integral piece or structure, another of edge wit-h an annular recess 5, usually formed which has been to provide the bowl with a by bending the metal of -such neck. The neck and the breast with a neck overlapping breast or breast member 6 is also formed in roo o each other, the bowl having a recess above any suitable manner and is provided with a the neck for the reception of a flange carried neck or collar portion 7, (shown in the pres- 'ent instance of less width or height than the neck 4,) adapted to fit within said annular recess 5, whereby it will be flush with the major part 4' of the neck of the bowl, it being maintained in said recess in the present instance by a flange 8, formed as a part of the bowl-neck, and which flange is shown bent outwardly to engage the inner side of the breast, adjacent to the juncture thereof, with its neck or collar portion 7, whereby it will be seen that the breast is connected with the neck in such manner that the parts cannot be readily separated one from another, this being assisted by the tinnin g operation,which acts as a soldering mediumto maintain the parts together, although in practice the parts may be soldered together before such tinning operation, if preferred.

In the present instance it will be seen that the Iiange 8 constitutes to a certain extent a locking-iiange and forms one wall of the annular recess, whereby such recess has a pair of end walls each in engagement with that member which has a part thereof located in said recess. It is, however, to be understood that this is not necessary, since the recess couldY be formed independently of or in connection with such dan ge, if desired. In either case, whether or not the recess has an end wall formed by a ange or other surface, it is evident that such recess may be otherwise located at the desired or preferred place upon either neck. It will also be obvious that the construction may be reversed, so that the recess 5' will be carried by the neck 7' of the breast 6, while the bowl 2 will have its neck portion 4" located therein, in which case the flange 8 is shown overlapping the inner side of the bowl.

In the present improvement it will be seen that the neck is a duplex one adjacent to its point of juncture with the breast, the breastneckbeing so connected with the bowl-neck as to form a flush outer surface. Furthermore, in l(he present improvement it will be seen that one neck portion is formed to receive the other neck portion, so that one neck portion is interlocked directly with the other neck portion intermediate the bowl and breast, which is essentially different from that construction above referred to, in which the recess for the reception of the neck-flange is located in the bowl, and notin the neck proper,

consequently necessitating the provision of a double neck.

From the foregoing it will be seen that an improved breast and bowl is provided, the neck portions of which are interlocked or se cured together in a firm and durable manner, one part reinforcing the other.

To reinforce the breast of the can, which is usually provided with a depending flange 9 for the reception of the can-body, a suitable of said necks having a recess provided with a pair of end walls for the reception of a part of the other of said members.

2. A bowl member and ,a breast member, each of said members having rigid therewith a neck, one-of said necks having a recess for the reception of and into which the other of said necks completely fits.

3. A bowl member having rigid therewith a neck or collar and abreast mem ber having rigid therewith a neck or collar, the necks of said members being interlocked intermediate the bowl and breast, and one of said neck portions having a flaring locking-liange overlapping one of said members.

4. A'bowl member and a breast member, one of said members having rigid therewith a neck provided with a recess for the reception of a portion of the other of said members, and also having a flaring flange overlapping a part of the other of said members.

5. A bowl having rigid therewith a neck and a breast having rigid therewith a neck, one of said necks having a recess for the reception of and into which the neck of the other of said members completely fits; one of the walls of said recess forming a flaring lockingiiange in engagement with one of said members.

6. A breast having rigid therewith a neck, and a bowl having rigid therewith a neck provided with an annular recess for the reception of and into which the neck of the breast completely fits.

7. A bowl having rigid therewitha neck provided with an annular recess and a breast having rigid therewith a neck portion fitting into said recess, said recessed neck also having a flaring locking-flange in engagement with said breast.

S. A bowl member and a breast member, one of said members having arelatively wide integral or rigid neck and the other of said members having a relatively narrow integral or rigid neck, said relatively wide neck having a recess for the reception of and into which said relatively narrow neck completely lits, and said relatively wide neck also having a locking-flange for engagement with the member having its neck located in said recess.

EDlVARD'll/I. PEAOOCK.

i/Vitnesses:

C. A. WEED, GEORGE E. BAKER.

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